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Issue Details

Issue #v4#2
Published March 1972
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 52
Editing Carl Burgos; Ezra Jackson (art)

Cover Details

Genre horror

9 page story "The Hairy Beast"

Synopsis "Two men dared to defy a sacred legend and tore apart a curtain of superstition that revealed a shocking nightmare of horror. Aw, shut up and take a shave... You beast!" (from TOC)
Genre horror; monster
Notes Same basic script as original, with new art.
Reprinted from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #20 (November 1954) [a redrawn version of "Katumba - The Man-Made Terror"]

9 page story "The Walls of Fear"

Synopsis "Uncanny terrifying things came from the four walls in a tidal wave of bloody terror. Honest, I never touch the sauce. Ugh!" (from TOC)
Genre horror
Notes Same basic script as original, with new art.
Reprinted from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #15 (June 1954) [a redrawn version of "The Dreaded Crypts of Horror"]

5 page text story "The Cottingley Haunts"

Synopsis "A chillorama of ghosts that stopped long enough to be photographed and then caused a world wide furor. Ye-ech!" (from TOC)
Genre occult; fact
Letters typeset
Reprinted from ?

3 page story "Deadman's Hand"

Synopsis "An eerie tales of a woman who killed her husband and became a victim of the deadman's hands. What's that? You want a towel to clean your bloody hands?..." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Pencils Alberto Macagno (signed)
Inks Alberto Macagno (signed)
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted from ?

4 page story "The Vampire-Ghouls"

Synopsis "No one could escape the fangs that reached out to fill that empty feeling in the pit of its gurgling stomach. A skin-crawling shocker." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Pencils Walter Casadei (signed)
Inks Walter Casadei (signed)
Notes Same basic script as original, with new art.
Reprinted from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #15 (October 1952) [a redrawn version of "The Fiend of the Nether World"]

5 page story "Pull Up a Coffin"

Synopsis "Your eyes will bulge with fear and sweat will pop out cold when the blade drops and heads roll. H-help!" (from TOC)
Genre occult
Notes The original story was reprinted in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v1#11.
Reprinted from Fantastic Fears (Ajax; Farrell, 1953 series) #8 [a redrawn version of "Be My Ghost"]

5 page story "Death Is an Artist"

Synopsis "Endless nightmares filled Paul's mind with ghoulish horrors until the dreams stopped and turned into reality. A scarifying bloody tale." (from TOC)
Genre occult
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #15 (October 1952) [a redrawn version of "Art for Death's Sake"]

8 page story "Satan's Plaything"

Synopsis "An unusual tale of an eerie little old peddler who sold toys - toys designed by Satan himself. A real chiller-diller." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Reprinted from Voodoo (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #5